slrn was maintained by Thomas Schultz from 2000 to 2007, with the help of others who made contributions, but development is now again followed by the original author, John E. Davis. Current development focuses on better support for different character sets and tighter integration of the S-Lang language processor. Version 1.0.0 of slrn was released on December 21, 2012, 18 years after the first release. Latest release is 1.0.3 on October 23, 2016. Historically slrn was the starting point for many Usenet users.[2] slrn is still a compromise between features, resource usage and simplicity.[3]